Previously in this thread:
>> But Iomega already marketed a drive named "Click" (20M? too little,
>> too late)
>
> 40mb. I inherited a drive and some disks... I find it remarkable that
> they managed to fit a spinning-removable-media drive inside a standard
> PCMCIA card. Somehow, I don't really feel like trusting it to anything
> important, though :).
I have a couple of these I picked up cheap from a surplus company a
few years back. I would never rely on these as a primary backup, but
as a fun little device, they are amusing to watch work.
My thought when I first saw them was that they reminded me of the
storage device show in the alien tech "museum" in "Men in Black",
where Tommy Lee Jones picks one up and says, "now I'll have to buy the
White Album all over again".
It has tempted me to rip my real White Album to Click and see if I
could fit the Iomega PCMCIA card into a 3.5" PCMCIA-IDE adapter frame
and mount _that_ in a 3.5"-5.25" adapter frame, then mount *that* in
my Apex DVD/CD player in place of the IDE DVD-ROM drive.
A long way for a gag, but I think it would work.
-ethan
P.S. - in the box with my Click stuff is a CF-to-Click adapter - the
idea was you'd take a 16MB or 32MB CF card from your camera, drop in a
Click disk, then siphon off your pictures without a PC in-between. It
was a fine idea except it was a) expensive, and b) camera cards
quickly blew past the size of a Click disk.
Hi,
We are looking for a second hand intel VLSiCE96 emulator.
I have seen incomplete ones on eBay but would prefer the complete kit including the 'umbilical cord' and software.
Does anyone still have these?
We are in UK but may be able to arrange shipping etc.
Thanks
Colin
Hi guys,
Does anyone want a HP Laserjet III?
I've got one sitting on the floor next to me occupying valuable space,
which quite frankly needs to go. Last time I checked it was flagging one
of the two common Service errors (I think it was Service 50), and it's
missing a button off the front panel (the one that goes underneath ON LINE).
I've also got a spare toner cartridge (in unknown condition), and
possibly a bag of spare parts that were scavenged off another LJ3 (that
one had a dead laser scanner). Nuts, bolts, rollers, front panel
buttons, that sort of thing. I might also have some modules, e.g. power
supply, and almost certainly have a spare LJ3 motherboard that can go as
well.
If you don't want the full machine, I'm also willing to part it (or the
Big Bag O' Spares) out. Let me know what bits you need... Quite frankly
I need the space, and don't need the printer (my Kyocera laser speaks
HP-PCL and "KPDL" aka PostScript quite fluently).
If nothing happens with it "soon", it's getting scavenged then scrapped.
Location is Leeds, West Yorkshire. Buyer collects, price is zero, zilch,
nada if you take the whole bloody lot off my hands. If I have to get a
screwdriver out and package things up to post, it'll be cost of post and
packing materials...
Cheers,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
Hi all.
I've been trying to get my 11/23 back on its feet. I've tried the
following setup:
KDF11-AA (M8186, CPU)
MSV11-DD (M8044-DD, Memory)
DLVJ1-M (M8043, SLU)
BDV11 (M8012)
The power check out ok and I've turned it on with the HALT switch up or
down and get the following behaviour.
With halt switch down: The run light goes out and all diods on the BDV11
lights up.
With halt switch up: The run light stays on and the diods on the BDV11
indicates that the console terminal test routine is waiting for response
>from operator on keyboard.
In both cases I see nothing on my terminal (I tried both a vt100 and
vt320) were I think I should see the ODT @-prompt.
I'm not sure what to do next, any suggestions?
Also, the AUX on/off switch does not work, how is it connected to the
PSU?
Kind Regards,
Pontus.
I have a few Nitron NC7040LC chips - 24 pin DIPs. They have 1980
datecodes. Any idea what these might be? Who was Nitron anyway?
I see some of the chip merchants on the net have some as well.
--
Will
Does anyone have a base for an ASR-33 that they want to get rid of?
Alternatively, is anyone willing to take some photographs of the base so
that I can make a reasonably accurate facsimile? I would need 3 images:
front, side, rear taken from about the middle of the base from the floor
to make scaling easy.
-chuck
A different interpretation on the 10 Yr. 'Rule'. Many experts, CPU mag
being one, say that we shouldn't store info on CDs, DVDs, etc. as they
may be unreadable in less than 10 yrs. Wouldn't it be sad if we lost
valuable information on the classic computing era? I guess
old-fashioned paper is the best way after all! Let's hope these
technologies last longer than my Zip-drive and disks that can't be
read because the drive died and I can't get it fixed or at the very
least at a decent price. So Sad!
Murray--
On 5 Dec 2009 at 10:41, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Machines were designed to perform to certain benchmarks. Anyone
> remember Saxpy (the company, not the LINPACK deck)? Anyone have one
> of their machines?
Ah, I remember Saxpy Computer Corporation to be in the same vein
as Alliant and Sequent etc. A little different than the SEL/Gould
processors but not too much (somewhere I have a "Firebreathers from Gould"
button, must be 1986? 87?), and probably closer to the bolt-on vector
coprocessors. But no, other than hearing their sales pitches never saw one.
I'm not sure I knew any labs that bought one. OTOH Alliant and Sequent
got into lots of engineering labs and even schools in that time frame.
Tim.